Quality News: Hacker News Rankings

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Regular army and reserve components enlistment program: Summary of change (army.mil)

×3.71 71 | 148 points by Jimmc414 10 hours ago | 170 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 PyPI package – credential stealer (github.com/BerriAI)

×3.53 64 | 730 points by theanonymousone 1 day ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Miscellanea: The War in Iran (acoup.blog)

×4.70 68 | 118 points by decimalenough 10 hours ago | 147 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
GitHub is once again down (githubstatus.com)

×3.29 52 #77 | 365 points by MattIPv4 18 hours ago | 189 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Is anybody else bored of talking about AI? (jakesaunders.dev)

×6.21 45 #58 | 677 points by jakelsaunders94 17 hours ago | 463 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora (hollywoodreporter.com)

×5.36 35 | 204 points by timpera 17 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms (cnn.com)

×3.72 33 | 158 points by billfor 16 hours ago | 67 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Meta ordered to pay $375M in New Mexico trial over child exploitation (reuters.com)

×3.01 34 | 74 points by gostsamo 10 hours ago | 28 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
All of DOGE's work could be undone as lawsuit against Musk proceeds (arstechnica.com)

×6.96 80 | 11 points by doener 58 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI (danielhomola.com)

×4.77 27 | 263 points by dankai 23 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Tell HN: Slow Down

×1.98 45 | 9 points by jacquesm 2 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Oil at $150 will trigger global recession, says boss of financial BlackRock (bbc.com)

×4.09 24 | 69 points by tartoran 12 hours ago | 77 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Microsoft's "fix" for Windows 11 (sambent.com)

×4.82 21 #43 | 993 points by h0ek 1 day ago | 718 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why did the chicken cross the road? (taylor.town)

×0.87 26 #67 | 35 points by surprisetalk 5 hours ago | 18 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny (bbc.com)

×4.97 20 #54 | 504 points by psim1 23 hours ago | 365 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Changing One Constant Reduced Our CI Memory Usage by 70% (coder.com)

×2.86 61 | 5 points by spikecurtis1 50 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at kernel with massive speed gains (xda-developers.com)

×6.45 19 #28 | 1086 points by felineflock 19 hours ago | 390 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Is Down

×5.72 86 | 12 points by haebom 30 minutes ago | 6 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The Terminal I Wished Existed, So I Built It (yaw.sh)

×3.89 73 | 5 points by tkjef 32 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
The AI Industry Is Lying to You (wheresyoured.at)

×5.70 16 | 155 points by spking 21 hours ago | 124 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple introduces age verification for iCloud accounts in the UK (engadget.com)

×0.58 56 | 4 points by scrlk 37 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
A.I. Chatbots Want Your Health Records. Tread Carefully. (nytimes.com)

×2.04 39 | 4 points by bookofjoe 59 minutes ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Europe facing fuel shortage within days, warns Shell boss (yahoo.com)

×3.06 58 | 4 points by alecco 34 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
ApiArk – an open-source, local-first Postman alternative (github.com/berbicanes)

×2.27 65 | 4 points by matijash 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Ask HN: How does one get rich in 2026?

×2.37 17 | 7 points by roschdal 3 hours ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
So where are all the AI apps? (answer.ai)

×3.78 11 #60 | 420 points by tanelpoder 1 day ago | 387 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Country that put backdoors in Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers (theregister.com)

×3.94 11 | 141 points by beardyw 20 hours ago | 45 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I tried to prove I'm not AI. My aunt wasn't convinced (bbc.com)

×1.49 14 #18 | 103 points by dabinat 4 hours ago | 112 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
NASA Lays Out Ambitious Plans for Moon Base and Nuclear Mars Mission (universetoday.com)

×1.27 29 | 3 points by inaros 53 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Epic Games to cut more than 1k jobs as Fortnite usage falls (reuters.com)

×2.86 9 #46 | 343 points by doughnutstracks 19 hours ago | 531 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
US expected to send thousands more soldiers to Middle East, sources say (reuters.com)

×3.82 9 #86 | 106 points by cdrnsf 17 hours ago | 87 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
RustDesk gets removed from WinGet after ESET marks it as potentially unsafe (twitter.com/rustdesk)

×2.08 23 | 3 points by super256 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple Rolls Out Age Verification Requirements for UK Users (bloomberg.com)

×1.39 40 | 3 points by miohtama 28 minutes ago | 2 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Eulogy for Open Source (opensourcesecurity.io)

×2.03 21 | 3 points by donutshop 1 hour ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
OLAP GraphDB: CSR analytical views coexisting with OLTP (with LDBC benchmarks) (arcadedb.com)

×1.46 44 | 3 points by lvca 24 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Polymarket Bets on Trump Actions Under Scrutiny (aljazeera.com)

×2.19 19 | 3 points by ordu 1 hour ago | 1 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
I ran 3,360 safety tests on GPT-4o, Claude, Grok, DeepSeek, Gemini (github.com/aestrad7)

×1.39 47 | 3 points by aestrad7 20 minutes ago | 3 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Open source isn't a tip jar – it's time to charge for access (theregister.com)

×3.16 12 #19 | 39 points by beardyw 2 hours ago | 31 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple launches age verification for UK iPhone users (politico.eu)

×1.45 48 | 3 points by miohtama 20 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Looking at Unity made me understand the point of C++ coroutines (mropert.github.io)

×1.47 8 #20 | 83 points by ingve 5 hours ago | 74 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Claude Is Having an Outage (claude.com)

×1.92 59 | 3 points by forks 7 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Blitzy Scores a Record 66.5% on SWE-Bench Pro (blitzy.com)

×3.16 60 | 3 points by stared 6 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Apple begins age checks in the UK with latest iOS update (arstechnica.com)

×3.11 62 | 3 points by azalemeth 5 minutes ago | discuss | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash (theguardian.com)

×2.77 2 #52 | 377 points by m_fayer 23 hours ago | 291 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???
Why I forked httpx (tildeweb.nl)

×2.32 2 #8 | 167 points by roywashere 6 hours ago | 114 comments | ▲ ▼ ??? ???